Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 297, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 April 1925 — Page 12

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CHICKIE

BYNOPMIS ChieWie <Helena) beloved and only daughter of an old-fashioned eouple, Jonathan and Jennie Bryee. feels a bit lonesome since Mary her chum has married Edward McPlke and she refuses Jimmy Blake's marriage proposal only because he is poor. Chiekie attends a parly given especially for her by wealthy Jake Munson. He begs her to accept the luxury he can give, and though she and Barry Dunne now love each other, she is Interested In Munson and calls on sophisticated Janina Knowles, her coworker and friend of Munson's, to learn more about him. He sends her a costly pin with a love note. Chiekie lies to Barry about the pin. At a house party given by Bess Abbott Chiekie meets, Ila Moore, an old friend of Barry's. Upon Chiekie’* request Jake arranges so her father does not lose "n his oil investment. Although Barry has said nothing of marriage he does not approve of Chiekie seeing Jake, Chiekie fears the fate that befell Stella Wilson, because of her lengthy engagement, and at Bess Abbott's wedding subtly tries to urge Barry to think of their marriage as a present possibility. GO ON WITH THE STORY By Elenore Meherin He began to walk again. Finally he sat on the edge of the lied and kicked off his shoes. He was cold, .Tiled with uneasiness. He got into bed and began to read. The words brought no thought to his crowded mind. He turned the pages viciously, saying to himself, ‘'The deuce!" He had a spent feeling—a burning agitation—as he went back over that rfeene in the little living room. He wondered u' he had agreed to marry Chiekie without waiting. Did she take his impulsive wish as a promise? Did she accept it as definitely settled now? He could feel the yielding sweet ness of her arms about his neck. He tried to shake his head free, she couldn’t think that. He had already told her definitely. He had no money. He would tell her again—make it plain. He would have to. No use evading— An idea of himself standing on a bluff, pursued by a hurricane, by a flame, held his thoughts trembling. But he wbuld not jump—not into that. The prospect of marriage repei!“d him. He wasn't, ready for it. He had work before him. The success of his whole life demanded these few ..-ears of unhampered effort. He dared not throw them away. He wouldn’t. No one should ask it— Tomorrow after lunch he would ask Chiekie to take a walk. He would find out what she thought. No sooner was this decision established than his sensitive im.-.gina-tion brought her before him, sweet face turned to his with tendei, gentle acquiescence that had flushed his veins like wine. Now he could see her eyes cowering from him in the hurt he would give. He tossed the magazine to the floor, switched out the light. • * • SOON the next day. Chiekie waited at the table. She watched men and girls getting their trays. Smiles played in and out about her lips. One o'clock lie hadn't come. .Tust the day she wanted —oh. so much to see him. In a grieved rush of disappointment, tears sprang into her eyes. All afternoon she kept giancinc across the alley. Her ardent wish failed to bring him f-om the shadow. That night he phoned. He was busy. No, he couldn’t come—well—he didn’t' know about tomorrow “Barry—you sound so far away!" A shy laugh—“ Why you sound frozen"— “I'm tired, Chiekie—that’s all." The next day she ate alone, But at R o’clock he met her. He was pale —lines at his full-cut. winsome mouth. “Thought we could go out tomorrow night. Chiekie, but I’ve not finished. Awful lot of work. You see Tufts is away —I’m doing all his stuff. Great chance for me" “So many things I wanted to talk about. Barry—you know” The wistful young girl eagerness of her lighted all anew the warmth in his senses. He said with impetuous ardor. “Ah, listen. Chiekie—we'll have to talk about all those sweet things. They'll keep, won't they? You know we've a lohg time—we’ve years and years just for talking, haven't we?" He saw then, just for a moment., what he hated to see—her eyes taking the hurt., covering it quickly. She said blithely, “Oh. my, yes! No hurry at all—at all." A whole week she ate alone. Each night he phoned. This only made her bitter. Yet at noon her feet drew her with aching desperation to the cafeteria. One day looking down at the bracelet he had given her for Christmas—a ‘hln gold band with lacy carving and a pretty amethyst in the center —looking at it through misted eyes, she saw a form moving to her table, sitting opposite. With a racing gladness flushing her fame, she raised her head, heard a rich kind voice: ‘That look for me Chiekie, my dear?” It was Jake. In her pique and loneliness she turned with a hard gayety to Jake. 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liant hunch. Take a sneak from work this afternoon. F*ine days like this the gods meant us to enjoy." Jake was in his most exuberant spirits—all flash and smile. His pleased glance going over her in warm, open admiration touched her like sun shooting through bleak shadow—balm to her sore, young pride. He sat opposite and put his hand over hers as he talked. She said gaily: “Oh, do the gods whisper all their secret hopes to you?” “I should say! I’m kept in touch with all the higher-ups. I assure you Providence decrees you shall ride down the country with one very good friend and have dinner at a little old wayside inn." • Well—‘l'd love that well enough.’’ “Bea sport then! If Mitchell raises a fuss tell him to go to! Tell him your grandmother's uncle died and left you a fortune and if he wants to can you, pish you should worry! We’ll kiss the uncle and get the fortune!” “I take it.! Mr. Jake—’’ “Look here —can't you remember a man's nam: from one day to another?” t “I say ’Mr.’ as a term of affection” ••I’ll find you a better one than that, my dear! But proceed, omitting affection.” “I take it, Jake, something vsry salubrlus happened to you today. “It happened just a moment ago, when I caught something that’s mine now, whether it. was meant for me or not. Here, you don t want that, stale-looking stuff! You've been toying with it for -the ten minutes. ‘Were on our way. He picked up her purse, stuck it in his pocket, hurried her down the cool, half-dark hallway. “Well have a day to be remembered.” “Give me the purse, Jake, and cease your raving.” But he stopped before a telephone hooth at the entrance of the build ing: "Step in there. Helena, and tell your little lie to Mitchell. Now! It’s all settled. "Why, Ghiokie, one would think you had a hundred lives to live the way you throw aside joy. Only young and fair once In this vale of tears. I’ll bet you haven't missed a day's work since you started. "Why. I wouldn't give a snap for the girls in my office if they didn't wheedle me out of five or six days in a year!” "But I shouldn't, Jake. I know I shouldn't.” “That's one very good reason why

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In a tennis tournament, one player won three out of four rets from his opponent and won some of "the games in the set he lost. He won, altogether, three times ns many games as his opponent. W|iat were the lowest possible scores of the sets? (In tennis, the player who first wins six games, wins the set. but must win by a margin of two games: thus if the score stands at 6-5, the players must continue until one has a margin of two games over his opponent.) I>ast puzzle answer: The dottfed lines Indicate the original triangular enclosure. The largnonm sautj} auoj sufeiuoa ean9O[o -ue Avau q) jnq IpaAOUi ueeq jou er enclosure is the same shape as the smaller: the three gates have ground as Lhs original one.

Lonely without Barry, she accepts Jake’s invitation.

you should. This sense r>f duty Is a fatal handicap to happiness. Step In: I'm going to have you down the line with me this afternoon if I pick you up bodily and carry you off screaming.” He swung his sjioulders with a high, Jaunty air. She laughed—a bright, reckless assent, her eyes all at once sparkling. She did as he wished. • • • As Jake helped her Into his car there came into her mind —vital, imperious, young—the face of Barry Dunne as he challenged her when she inclined to the luxurious joy of the yachting trip. She shut it from her with a hot. defiant passion: "I don't care: You should have much to say: You care so much:” Her hurt was a raw, open cut, throbbing in her mind. They went dashing past the wooded hills skirting the Sound. Far flung and high the land rolled out before them. The slopes. Chickie, running away from work, running from that window across the alley Into the wide open beauty, the beaming color of this warm spring day. felt a ripple of defiant gladness. Nice in Jake to come just when she was so deep in gloom her heart was a lump of lead: gay to be swinging so merrily down the valleys. She looked at him gratefully and smiled. “Now. I want to know, Helena Bryce—how are you? For you see the high gods gave us the. spring: to let. us perceive it's O. K. with them if it’s O. K. with us. T may not bring you back, since such is such!” She threw him a startled look of fear. He slowed the car and touched her hand. “See here. Chickie, that’s not the way I want you to look at me. Inderstand? Someone of these days you're going to come and put your arms around me and kiss me because you want to—because you want to like anything—as you say yourself. Till then you're as safe as a baby in the madonna's arms. I’m telling you something.” He began to laugh, his black eyes touching her like wild fire; sending a strange, expectant shiver through her. ' And. Chickie—shall I tell you something? I've a wish I never had before. You know I'd like to have Helena Bryce think me the finest fellow In the world. I'd rather like to he that for her” — She said eagerly, a catch in her voice, a sudden ache opening in her heart: "Oh, would you? I do think you're fine. I’ve thought It right along. I think you are just kingly." The red lips sobered. He said quietly: "I want more than that, Chickie. I mean to hare more than that. I’m going to have it. You see-—I know what I want from life, Chickie dear —so I get It. You don't know what you want. That's a mistake. I’ve tola you this before. You ought to taka a vacation and think the whole thing out. Make up your mind what, you're after; set your vision on it; keep it there. Tt will come to you. T know. Rut if you don't have your‘ goal set, you're likely to land where you never In the wide world intended to go.” “Oh, I know vvhat I want! Indeed I do.” “Are you sure that your head wants it as well as your heart?” "Well, It doesn’t pay to he too greedy, does It? We can’t satisfy both all the time. Like a big family, there’s always sure to be one with a grouch.” He glanced at her a litle sadly. "Chickie. I had an Idea you'd call It all off.” “I don't know what you mean, Jake.” "Yes. you do. T mean your heart. I thought you'd called it home again.” She laughed nervously. "Ears It has, but it hears npt! That’s the way a heart is. Did you know that? It goes where it will and It stays till It breaks:” “Young hearts break easily, Chickie. They’re very brittle. After a while they learn to bounce. Then they’re happy, and we are, too. I

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shan’t mind a break or two —even a very bad break. But what is it you want from life —tell me, will you?” “You promise to get it for me? "I promise that.” "Quite a large order, my kind Lord Bountiful. Driving past beautiful homes. Chickie’s eyes drank eagerly the wild loveliness of the gardens; the deeptoned harmony of line and color in the architecture. She had a burning curiosity to enter these stately homes, be invited to tea —oh. Just somehow saunter through the gorgeous rooms. She said with childlike impulse to Jake: "Well, do you know Janina was in one of these places where the woman had five closets just stacked with clothes and a hundred pairs of shoes there must have been that many, for Janina stopped counting them when she got to thirty-nine. Id love to get into some of those closets, rummage among them —maybe drop a rag or two out of the window—eraftylike. and you down in the lawn to catch

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it! Would you?” “If I’d known you had this hankering, Miss Bryce, I’d have taken you through that one we passed about a mile beck. I know the owners. Next time we’re down here —’’ he paused, mirth on his lips—"the very next time we're down here. Chiekie, suppose we go through it." “Really—you mean that, Jake?’! “Yes—" “Soon? Why, you don’t know. I’ve just ached to get into one of these places for years." “Name the day, then, my dear!’’. He caught her hand suddenly, pressing it hard between his palms. “I've ached for a thing or two, Chiekie. Are you happy just now? Dike my brilliant hunch —and the pair of us playing hookey together?” “I love it!” “Then we'll do it again. How's Saturday?” “I—l don't know —well—” All at once little movements trembled on her lips. She felt tears rushing to her throat, pelting there hotly. She kept pinching her thumb till it was pointed as a mandarin's. “I'm not sure about Saturday, Jake.” "Please. Chiekie. Take a tip from me—an old dog, Chiekie —won’t hurt your case. Saturday at noon—lunch and rummage through the close's. How’s that?" "I suppose that’s lovely.” “Lovely Ls good enough for me, my dear! So that's that!" Half a dozen times during the afternoon she started to say: “No. I can't come with you Saturday. I forgot a date. Oh’ I can't break it!" She grew nervous. Her thought brought Barry Dunne before her. Her thought pleaded eagerly with him. She imagined his young, ardent eyes hard with scorn. She tried to shut them out. T|iey followed her. But she let the date stand. (To Be Continued) (Copyright Kinx Featon Syndicate!

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